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Archive for December, 2006

Octopussy and We hate Jodhpur

Udaipur turned out to be one of the highlights thus far of our trip, although we didn’t know it at the time.  The town is fairly small by Indian standards (a ’small’ town has something like  80k people or more), and set picturesquely alongside a nice lake.  Set in the center of the lake are two palaces, one […]

Merry Christmas!

So yes, I haven’t been all that diligent about posting here on this trip. In large part, the blame for that lies with the relatively poor internet cafe offerings here in India, coupled with the complete exhaustion one feels after a full day dealing with the noise and chaos here. More on that later.
For now, […]

Thursday arrived and brought with it the impending arrival of Geraldine, albeit at the end of what would become a somewhat agonizingly long day.  I spent most of it wandering around, eating, waiting.  I switched hotels from the fleabag I was staying in (surrounded by slums), to a nice hotel so that after a 30+ […]